The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-07-27
GENERAL MEMS NOTES.
Items OF lnterest Gathered I'm Various
Quarters.

Items OF lntereat Gathered I'm Various
Quarters.
The French Senate has passed the mob!l-
ization bill
Drought is causing water famine in Man
chester, England.
Already 23G amendments have been OF
fered 20 the Irish land bill.
ka,koff. editor Of the Moscow Gazette,
is reported as dying.
Queen kapiolani and party sailed from
Sa,i Francisco for Honolulu yesterday.
Baron Seilliere, has been released from
the lunatic asylum at Paris and on his way
to America.
Twelve new cases of yellow fever have
appeared at Key West and one deata has
occurred.
The iewelry establishment Of Geo. Y:
Fairchild. Bridgeport, Conn, was robbed
Of $4,000 worth Of jewelcy. No clue.
The Standard Oil property at Constable
Hook, \. J.. has been destroyed by fire.
Loss 81 ,000,000 No insurance.
The cotton crop in the province of Men
ufieh, Egypt, has been attacked By worms,
and much Of it has already been destroyed.
The President has appointed John G.
Walker, of Texas. to be Secretary OF the
Legation and Consul General at Bogota.
Strikers are resuming work in the Penn
sylraGia coke regions, and by Monday 1t is
expected that all the works will be in opcr-
alton.
?'he extensive bark extract works OF J.
S. Young e. Co., Baltimore, were totally
DESTROYED by fire last night. Loss about
$2oo, 900; fully insured.
John Tyler. son of President Tyler, for
Il long time 4 clerk in the Treasury Depart
ment, was stricken with paralysisln Wash
inc:an last night.
Briggs Swifl's old pork house at Cincin-
naii. recently remodelled for manufactur-
ING purposes, was burned Tuesday. Loss
$3.50, 600 Partly covered by insurance.
'fh-ee hundred and ninety-six houses
have been destroyed by fire at Sscnzjany,
in tie government Of Wilma, Russia Four
thousand people were made homeless.
The Chamber of Deputies voted 500, GOO
francs for the temporary resumption Of the
performances by the Opera CnmiQue COM
pary, whose theatre was recently burned.
The Paris Repu5lique Francai&s, com
ment;ng on the Anglo Turkish Egyptian
convention, pronounces it L masterpiece OF
dupiicity. intended to transfer Egypt en-
tirc!y to England.
Six bales of new cotton were received in
New Orleans by rail Tuesday from Cue
rotod The cotton in two of the bales was
raised by-lIrS. Hausanna. The remainder
was shipped by Bucheles & Co.
X. .Jouvencal has presented to the Cham
Der of Deputies bill proposing the forma-
ton of corps of 30, 900 men especially to
protect the Italian frontiers in the event of
Italy assisting Germany against France.
\ French custom officer named Ritter,
at pagny-Suhr, was stabbed in i quarrel
bv /, commercial traveller named Anderbe.
The latter was arrested. Ritters wound is
not serious The French press exaggcr-
ates the incident
The big bear raid on Russian securities
is the talk Of Berlin, now the money centre
os Europe. II is generally admitted that
this raid was part Of Germany's retaliation
policy, because of Russia'S adoption Of an
ant, German economic policy.
Gambrinus Assembly of Knights of La
Dor. Milwaukee, Wis, is getting ready to
sec"de from the Order on account Of the
temperance views held by General Master
Workman Powderly.
An effort to corner oatmeal is being made.
This is the meancst development OF the
spirit CT speculation which has perpetrated
so many outrases ON the people Of this
country.
S.aator-eiect Faulkner, CT West Fir-
gina, says his credentials are perfect and
that Governor Wilson's refusal to give him
certificate of election will amount to
nothing.
Tom Ochiltrce has moved to New York.
and will run for congress in one of the city
districts next year Tom will determine
which party he will run with as soon as be
picks on. his district.
Secretary Whitney has received an official
report from Captain Bunce of the recent
tria! OF the battery OF the Atlanta. The
result has been TO throw doubt upon the
efficiency Of the gun carriages and mounts.
The boiler Of +. l.. Cnan1 6erialn saw
mill, at Natchez, Miss, exploded yesterday
afternoon. wrecking the mill and killing
Dorsey Scott, the colored fireman, and in
iuring Chamberlain, the engineer and pro-
prictor, and two or three others.
The cases against Nathan kohn and his
niece, Emma Frankel, of Winchester. Va,
indicted for violation of the Virginia Law
in going to Baltimore, marrying and re-
turning to Winchester to reside, were con-
tinted until the September term OF Court.
The elevator and malt house of Gerhardt
Larg, at Gennessee and jefferson streets,
| Buffalo. 4. Y, were burned last night.
Loss $4,000. Two fremen were badly
hurt. being forced to jump from a great
height to save their lives.
Tu:lc, of Iowa, who proposed to insult
President Cleveland if he went to St. Louis,
i! discovered II years after the war was over
tna; &c had been hurt. He then went to
work anc made grab for "A years of ar
rearages Of pension.
Th5 Ease of J. II. Lowrey ct al. VS.. the
Charlotte. Columbia and Augusta railroad,
bei.g an elo-t to break its lease to the
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